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LONDON — The Archbishop of Canterbury said Sunday that the U.S. and Iraq must protect the residents of Camp Ashraf from violence and abuse.
The situation in Camp Ashraf “constitutes a humanitarian and human rights issue of real magnitude and urgency,” Archbishop Rowan Williams said in a statement on his website. The spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Church said a U.N. monitoring team must be established to visit the camp in Iraq where about 3,500 members of a resistance group opposed to the clerical regime in Iran have been confined since 2003.
The U.S. military turned over responsibility for the camp to the Iraqis on Jan. 1. Iraqi soldiers launched a bloody effort to assert their authority in late July.
